Marla Leigh Caplan, LMFT offers trauma-informed depth therapy in Marin County and the San Francisco Bay Area for individuals, couples, and families.
Her work is grounded in depth psychology and intuitive presence, supporting clients navigating anxiety, trauma, addiction recovery, life transitions, and complex relational dynamics.
Marla works with people who are ready to stop pretending — done dimming their power, shrinking to fit someone else’s story, or managing their brilliance to make others comfortable.
For those ready to do the real work, this is it — raw, sacred, and transformative.
With specialized training in trauma therapy, addiction recovery, and relational dynamics, Marla blends clinical insight with the empathy and embodiment of lived experience. Her approach helps you disrupt inherited patterns, instill self-trust, and reclaim the parts of yourself that have been buried or exiled.
Come for the truth. Come to reclaim your life.
As the founder of a boutique psychotherapy practice in Marin, Marla offers highly personalized care for a privacy-conscious clientele throughout the San Francisco Bay Area — working with a limited number of clients to ensure attuned attention and the utmost discretion.
Therapy with Marla is irreverent, bold, and soulful — a space to come home to yourself.
Let this be your invitation to take up space — in your life, your relationships, your healing.
You don’t have to earn your worth. You just have to stop apologizing for it.
Therapy in Marin County with a compassionate, experienced thought partner for your most intimate problems.
One-on-one and joint therapy in Marin County to support your relationship with self and other.
A safe container to get to know yourself better — body, mind and spirit
Bespoke, confidential psychotherapy that honors your authenticity.
It takes courage to take the first step. I offer a safe non-judgmental space for personal exploration that supports you to be your authentic self.
Book a free, unhurried conversation to see whether this approach feels aligned for you.
Let’s connect. You’re invited to share what brings you here and explore how I might support your healing.
A personalized process that meets your uniqueness with presence, curiosity and care.
Marla is an exceptional counselor. She is highly skilled and trained, intuitive, empathetic, and has an amazing ability to bring issues to a point and ask the exact right questions to bring insights and change. It was an invaluable experience. I still keep in touch for tune-ups.
Therapy with Marla is very gratifying. I’m a more complete individual, husband, father, and friend. The work to rediscover myself and the accessibility I’ve gained to my feelings is something I’m very proud of. Marla makes that self-work exciting, energizing, and purposeful.
With Marla’s support, I was able to leave a long-term relationship that was very unhealthy for me. Her support enabled me to move on and thrive very quickly.
I’m proud to say that I’m a changed man and I feel really good about that. I’ve been able to let go of my anger, be more aware of why I feel like I do, and I have the tools and practice to be the version of myself that I want to be. I get to keep improving and exploring myself.
Marla helped me through a very challenging time, which was my first focus when starting to meet with her. Once I got more clarity and changed behaviors around that pressing issue, I continued meeting with her to unravel other parts of myself. I can confidently say I came out a changed person.
Working with Marla is invaluable to my family. She truly cares about her clients, is patient, kind, focused, and asks just the right questions. In true emergency situations, she was also reachable and available for a check-in outside of scheduled appointments, which made a huge difference.
